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Bet, Beth, Beh, or Vet is the second letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician bēt 𐤁 , Hebrew bēt ב , Aramaic bēṯ 𐡁, Syriac bēṯ ܒ and Arabic bāʾ ب . Its sound value is the voiced bilabial stop b or the voiced labiodental fricative v .
Family name affixes are a clue for surname etymology and can sometimes determine the ethnic origin of a person. This is a partial list of affixes. ... Bet – (Arabic ...
In some Sephardi and Mizrahi dialects, bet without dagesh is pronounced [b], like bet with dagesh; In Syrian and Yemenite Hebrew, gimel without dagesh is pronounced [ɣ]. In Yemenite Hebrew, and in the Iraqi pronunciation of the word "Adonai", dalet without dagesh is pronounced [ð] as in "these"
For example, the second letter of the Phoenician alphabet was based on the Egyptian hieroglyph for "house" (a sketch of a house); the Semitic word for 'house' was bet; hence the Phoenician letter was called bet and had the sound value b.
When used with the Bet, Kaf or Lamed prepositional prefix it is omitted; instead the vowel on the preposition is changed. If He is used with other prefixes, the He is always the last prefix before the root. וּבַיוֹם uvayom [3] (and on the day: note that the ve (on) combines with the ha (the) to become va (on the)).
The bet is on whether the "dared" person will make a given event happen. If the "dared" person accepts the bet, they will collect if they succeed or pay if they fail. For an example detailed in the book The Professor, the Banker, and the Suicide King , David Grey once bet Howard Lederer , a professional poker player who became vegetarian ...
Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
On March 24, 1984, he returned to the Horseshoe and bet $538,000, again in craps and again won. Finally on November 16 the same year, Bergstrom placed his largest craps bet: $1,000,000. This time he lost. [10] [11] April 11, 2004: Ashley Revell sold all his possessions and bet £76,840 on one roll of the roulette wheel in Las Vegas. He doubled ...